Paul Baxter set the Penguins all-time single-season penalty minutes record in 1981-82 with a staggering 409 PIMs. He is also the all-time WHA penalty minutes leader with 962 PIMs.

Although Mario Lemieux won six Art Ross Trophies as NHL scoring champion, it was Jaromír Jágr who accomplished the feat four years in a row (1998-2001).

On May 14, 1993, during a game against the New York Islanders, Kevin Stevens checked Islanders' defenseman Rich Pilon, hitting Pilon's visor with so much force that he knocked himself unconscious. Stevens landed face first on the ice, shattering most of the bones in his face. Doctors had to cut an incision below his hairline from ear-to-ear, which was later closed with over 100 stitches, and peel back his skin to reassemble the bones in Stevens' face with the use of metal plates. Stevens came back to have one more strong season for the Penguins, in 1993-94 (41 goals, 47 assists), before being traded the next year.

In his first full season (1984-85), Warren Young scored 40 goals off just 131 shots for a franchise record shooting percentage of 30.5%. He was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team, and his emergence with the Penguins led many teams to increase their scouting of players at the college level.

Dan Bylsma led the Penguins to a Stanley Cup championship in 2009, just four months after being promoted to Pittsburgh's head coaching position. He would go on to became the fastest NHL coach to reach 250 wins, accomplishing the feat in just 395 games, but was fired just six games later with a franchise-record winning percentage of .670.

In the 1988-89 season, Lemieux led the league with 114 assists (tied with Gretzky) and 85 goals for 199 points. He is the only player to approach Gretzky's mammoth 200+ point seasons. Lemieux finished the season a close second to Gretzky in voting for the Hart Trophy, and set several milestones and records in the process, becoming the second player to score 70+ goals in two seasons, the fourth player to score 50 goals in 50 games, and the only player to score 13 shorthanded goals in one season. Buoyed in part by Lemieux' performance, the Penguins made the playoffs for the first time in seven years.

Tom Barrasso is a two-time Stanley Cup champion, winning the championship in 1991 and 1992 with the Penguins, but it was 1993 when he would notch a career-high 43 wins.

A remarkably clean player, Rick Kehoe played in 906 NHL games, scoring 371 goals and 396 assists for 767 points, and accrued just 120 penalty minutes. He won the Lady Byng Trophy in 1981 for "sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct."

On April 11, 2015, Marc-André Fleury recorded his league leading tenth shutout of the season in a 2-0 victory against the Buffalo Sabres to secure the last wild card spot in the East.

No one had more eight-point games than Lemieux. Only 16 times in the history of the NHL has a player tallied eight points in a game. Wayne Gretzky did it twice, Lemieux three times.